Am I Clean Enough For My Parrot?

[Janie]

Hi all, Darwin has taken to trying to preen me... or eat me... haven't decided yet.  He will go for freckles, hairs in fact any stray thing that he thinks should not be where he doesn't want it...  it can get quite painful... and when I tell him know he looks at me as if to say, 'What have I done?'

Is this normal...  am I dirty    He especially likes trying to preen (eat) my face...  quite disconcerting...   

Do your flids do this as well?

hugs Janie xx

[feika]

They do it to show their love not to show their janitorial services, you are his companion, his flock and he is doing what they do in a flock.

[carol]

Georgie sits on my husbands hand licking his fingers whats all that about 

[jules]

carol i hope hubby washes his hands  or georgie must just like the soap 

jasper has taken to preening my hair just latley and that hurts sometimes too 

[Janie]

Maybe he doesn't wash his hands 

Glad Darwin likes me enough to preen me...

hugs Janie xxx

[kins23]

Janie.... your baby is bonding, and showing you, he is especially fond of you! They also will clean your teeth, worse than the dentist! LOLSophie, also tends to pull out hair, she feels I shouldn't have. I hope they are premature greys! Your baby is right on... for "social goals!" Keep up the good work. Darwin is doing just fine!  Nancy M

[Janie]

Darwin is the bestest birdie in the world... but then I suppose I am biased...   yesterday I caught myself telling him he is the best thing that ever happened to me...     Good job Stuart wasn't in the room...   

hugs Janie (besotted mum)  xxx

[kins23]

keep telling darwin how great he is!!!!They know it! a secure bird, is a happy bird! I hopefully will be addressing other issues, such as chewing, in next few weeks.I'm not sure, what the response will be, but I am determined,to help parents take control.   Nancy M

[jules]

janie i just noticed in your little notes what darwin has been up to  he has taken down your curtains,a parrot after jaspers own heart  wait until i tell jasper he has a work buddy 

[Janie]

Darwin definitely rules this house now...  even now the curtain is hanging half off waiting for Stuart to put it back up.  I am to short to reach that high up.  For some reason this house was built for giants     He has eaten into a wooden curtain pole, eaten the back spokes of a chair, broken an ornament (stupid of me to leave it up), made little holes in the back of a door curtain from climbing about on it, and the funny thing is...  I never got upset at all at him...    oh he also pulled over a full glass of lemonade...  made a dreadful mess everywhere...  worried me, as Grey's shouldn't drink carbonated drinks as there bodies aren't built to get rid of the gas build up like (ahem) we do...  he's okay though... 

He has pulled keys off my keyboard, pulled knobs off the stove, pooped into a thankfully empty coffee mug (dead centre as well, he was sitting above it on a kitchen cabinet), stolen food from our plates, and more besides...  he is a delinquent  and we love him to pieces... 

hugs Janie xxx

[ukgrey]

 

Whoa janie, darwins done more damage in just a few weeks than my babies have done alltogether in two years!!!!!

[Janie]

  I must be a terrible mother 

hugs Janie xxx

[jules]

crikey and i thought jasper was bad. 

he once knocked over my mug of coffee leaving just a bit in the bottom and then had the cheek to ask me if it was nice 

in just over three years he has almost stripped the kitchen bare of wall paper,tops of cupboards where i can treach him. took a strip from the top of the door too. made holes in the living room curtains (for ventilation and fresh air he says) and shredded the kitchen curtains to the point of extinction 

numerous other stuff but i cant remember, i think in about ten or twenty years we'll have no house left 

[kins23]

Janie, take everything Darwin has done, and multiply it by three! I thought things sounded pretty good! LOL I have removed the curtains in family , living and dining room. You are a GREAT mom! We try to keep some control, over our babies mess. I have sacrificed curtains and rugs in lover half of house. I have not been sorry!   Nancy

[kgamblin]

Jules, I was just talking to a friend who had two cockatoos, a grey, and several tiels, parrakets, a pair of Paralots and several other small birds.  She was just saying that her walls, blinds, and furniture are chew and torn and that one day she would wake up and be sitting on a cement slab(house foundation) with no house left at all.